West Celebrates as Dark Age Descends over Egypt

Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood begins rounding up outspoken journalists as Egypt arrays itself with West against Syria and Iran. by Tony Cartalucci

August 13, 2012 - US State Department's Voice of America boldly proclaimed "Egyptian Media: Military Shakeup 'Revolutionary'," airing proclamations from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that, "Egyptians have been “dreaming of a fair democratic system for more than 60 years." It is unlikely that Egyptians have been "dreaming" of an end to their secular system of governance, or "dreaming" of a sectarian extremist political party coming to power, notorious for thuggery, violence, and for being a stalwart pillar of Western machinations.

Image: Mohamed Morsi - hardly a "hardline extremists" himself, he is the embodiment of the absolute fraud that is the Muslim Brotherhood - a leadership of Western-educated, Western-serving technocrats posing as "pious Muslims" attempting to cultivate a base of fanatical extremists prepared to intimidate through violence the Brotherhood's opposition. Failing that, they are prepared to use (and have used) extreme violence to achieve their political agenda.

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And already, Egypt's "democratic dreams" are vanishing like the last wisp of morning mist as the ruling Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt begins rounding up critics amongst the media. AFP recently reported in their article, "Egyptian journalists to be tried for insulting Mursi," that "television boss Tawfiq Okasha and newspaper journalist Islam Afifi will
be tried for "incitement" and insulting Egyptian President Mohammed
Mursi."

Strangely, while similar actions around the world beget howling indignation from organizations including Freedom House, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and IFEX - not to mention the US State Department itself which underwrites each of these faux-human rights advocates - there is not only absolute silence regarding this assault on "freedom of expression," but instead, a collective chorus of support from the Western media, hailing Morsi's increasingly despotic dismantling of Egypt's checks and balances through an increasing aggressive consolidation of power, as a "step forward for revolution."

Morsi's assault on Egypt's press has coincided with "mysterious" sectarian extremist attacks on Egyptian security forces on the Sinai Peninsula, most likely the collective work of Israel and Hamas. Of course, Hamas, an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is a direct creation of Israel (and here), and like the Muslim Brotherhood, is a pillar of US-Israeli machinations throughout the region.

Morsi quickly used the convenient attacks as a pretense to sack various security officials, the momentum of which carried forward to the forced "retirement" of Egypt's military leadership.

Fortune 500-funded think-tanks including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution would gush over Morsi's move to extra-legally procure more power - with CFR's Steven Cook declaring Morsi as "extraordinarily powerful." Cook would concede however that "in theory," this is a "more healthy place for Egypt to be in a
democratic transition, but you have to raise questions about
the democratic credentials of the Muslim Brotherhood."

So What are the Brotherhood's "Democratic Credentials?"

Raise questions about the Muslim Brotherhood's "democratic credentials" indeed. The Muslim Brotherhood is a theocratic sectarian extremist movement, and not only that, but a regional movement that transcends national borders. It is guilty of decades of violent discord not only in Egypt, but across the Arab World and it has remained a serious threat to secular systems from Algeria to Syria and back again.

Today, the Western press has decried Egyptian and Syrian efforts to hem in
these sectarian extremists, particularly in Syria where the government was accused of having "massacring" armed Brotherhood militants in Hama in 1982.
The constitutions of secular Arab nations across Northern Africa and the
Middle East, including the newly rewritten Syrian Constitution,
have attempted to exclude sectarian political parties, especially those
with "regional" affiliations to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood and Al
Qaeda affiliated political movements from ever coming into power.

And while sectarian extremists taking power in Egypt and attempting to take power in Syria may seem like an imminent threat to Western (including Israeli) interests - it in reality is a tremendous boon.

Morsi himself is by no means an "extremists" or an "Islamist." He is a US-educated technocrat who merely poses as "hardline" in order to cultivate the fanatical support of the Brotherhood's rank and file. Several of Morsi's children are even US citizens. Morsi will gladly play the part of a sneering "anti-American," "anti-Zionist" "Islamist," but in the end, no matter how far the act goes, he will fulfill the West's agenda.

Already, despite a
long campaign of feigned anti-American, anti-Israel propaganda during
the Egyptian presidential run-up, the Muslim Brotherhood has joined US, European, and Israeli calls for "international" intervention in Syria. Alongside the CIA, Mossad, and the Gulf State despots of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood's Syrian affiliates have been funneling weapons, cash, and foreign fighters into Syria to fight Wall Street, London, Riyadh, Doha, and Tel Aviv's proxy war.

"Working quietly, the Brotherhood has been financing Free Syrian Army defectors based in Turkey
and channeling money and supplies to Syria, reviving their base among
small Sunni farmers and middle class Syrians, opposition sources say."

The Muslim Brotherhood was nearing extinction in Syria before the latest unrest, and while Reuters categorically fails in its report to explain the "how" behind the
Brotherhood's resurrection, it was revealed in a 2007 New Yorker article
titled, "The Redirection"
by Seymour Hersh.

The Brotherhood was being directly backed by the US and Israel who
were funneling support through the Saudis so as to not compromise the
"credibility" of the so-called "Islamic" movement. Hersh revealed that
members of the Lebanese Saad Hariri clique, then led by Fouad Siniora,
had been the go-between for US planners and the Syrian Muslim
Brotherhood.

Hersh reports the Lebanese Hariri faction had met
Dick Cheney in Washington and relayed personally the importance of using
the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria in any move against the ruling
government:

"[Walid] Jumblatt then told me that he had met with Vice-President Cheney in
Washington last fall to discuss, among other issues, the possibility of
undermining Assad. He and his colleagues advised Cheney that, if the
United States does try to move against Syria, members of the Syrian
Muslim Brotherhood would be “the ones to talk to,” Jumblatt said." -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh

The article would continue by explaining how already in 2007, US and Saudi backing had begun benefiting the Brotherhood:

"There is evidence that the Administration’s redirection strategy has
already benefitted the Brotherhood. The Syrian National Salvation Front
is a coalition of opposition groups whose principal members are a
faction led by Abdul Halim Khaddam, a former Syrian Vice-President who
defected in 2005, and the Brotherhood. A former high-ranking C.I.A.
officer told me, “The Americans have provided both political and
financial support. The Saudis are taking the lead with financial
support, but there is American involvement.” He said that Khaddam, who
now lives in Paris, was getting money from Saudi Arabia, with the
knowledge of the White House. (In 2005, a delegation of the Front’s
members met with officials from the National Security Council, according
to press reports.) A former White House official told me that the
Saudis had provided members of the Front with travel documents." -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh

It was warned that such backing would benefit the Brotherhood as a
whole, not just in Syria, and could effect public opinion even as far as
in Egypt where a long battle against the hardliners was fought in order
to keep Egyptian governance secular. Clearly the Brotherhood did not
spontaneously rise back to power in Syria, it was resurrected by US,
Israeli, and Saudi cash, weapons and directives.

Likewise, its rise into power in Egypt was facilitated by Western-backed and funded destabilization, sometimes referred to as the "Arab Spring."

US-backed Sedition, Not Revolution Has Seized Egypt

In January of 2011, we were told that "spontaneous," "indigenous"uprising
had begun sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, including Hosni
Mubarak's Egypt, in what was hailed as the "Arab Spring." It would be
almost four months before the corporate-media would admit that the US
had been behind the uprisings and that they were anything but
"spontaneous," or "indigenous." In an April 2011 article published by
the New York Times titled, "U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings," it was stated (emphasis added):

"A
number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts
and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement
in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists
like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and
financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington."

The article would also add, regarding the US State Department-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED):

"The
Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the
Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are
financed through the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set
up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in developing
nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million annually
from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money from the
American government, mainly from the State Department. "

It
is hardly a speculative theory then, that the uprisings were part of
an immense geopolitical campaign conceived in the West and carried out
through its proxies with the assistance of disingenuous organizations
including NED, NDI, IRI, and Freedom House and the stable of
NGOs they maintain throughout the world. Preparations for the "Arab
Spring" began not as unrest had already begun, but years before the
first "fist" was raised, and within seminar rooms in D.C. and New York,
US-funded training facilities in Serbia, and camps held in neighboring
countries, not within the Arab World itself.

In 2008, Egyptian activists from the now infamous April 6 movement were in New York City for the inaugural Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM) summit, also known as Movements.org. There, they received training, networking opportunities, and support from AYM's various corporate and US governmental sponsors, including the US State Department itself. The AYM 2008 summit report (page 3 of .pdf)
states that the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and
Public Affairs, James Glassman attended, as did Jared Cohen who sits on
the policy planning staff of the Office of the Secretary of State. Six
other State Department staff members and advisers would also attend the
summit along with an immense list of corporate, media, and
institutional representatives.

Image: The Serbian Otpor fist... in Egypt?
The same US organizations that trained & funded Serbians to
overthrow their government in 2000, were behind the April 6 Movement and
the Egyptian "Arab Spring." Sun Tzu in the Art of War said, "all
warfare is deception." In fourth generation warfare, no deceit is
greater than convincing people they are "liberating" themselves when in
reality they are dividing and destroying their nation so that Wall
Street & London's network of already in-place NGOs can take over. This,
while a suitable proxy is put in office as PM or president. In Egypt,
these NGOs would already have a new constitution drafted and ready before the fall of Hosni Mubarak.

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Shortly afterward, April 6 would travel to Serbia to train under US-funded CANVAS, formally the US-funded NGO "Otpor" who helped overthrow the government of Serbia in 2000. Otpor, the New York Times would report,
was a "well-oiled movement backed by several million dollars from the
United States." After its success it would change its name to CANVAS
and begin training activists to be used in other US-backed regime
change operations.

The April 6 Movement, after training with
CANVAS, would return to Egypt in 2010, a full year before the "Arab
Spring," along with UN IAEA Chief Mohammed ElBaradei. April 6 members would even be arrested
while waiting for ElBaradei's arrival at Cairo's airport in
mid-February. Already, ElBaradei, as early as 2010, announced his
intentions of running for president in the 2011 elections. Together with
April 6, Wael Ghonim of Google, and a coalition of other opposition parties, ElBaradei assembled his "National Front for Change" and began preparing for the coming "Arab Spring."

Photo:
From left to right, ICG members Shlomo Ben-Ami, Stanley Fischer, Shimon
Peres, and Mohamed ElBaradei. Despite claims that Mohomed ElBaradei is "anti-Israeli" or "anti-West," it is a documented fact that he
is indeed an agent of the Wall Street-London corporate-fascist global
oligarchy, and a member of the International Crisis Group which includes
several current and former senior Israeli officials. The same charade is now taking place with Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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An April 2011 AFP report would confirm
that the US government had trained armies of "activists" to return to
their respective countries and enact political "change," when US State
Department's Michael Posner stated that the "US government has budgeted
$50 million in the last two years to develop new technologies to help
activists protect themselves from arrest and prosecution by
authoritarian governments." The report went on to explain that the US
"organized training sessions for 5,000 activists in different parts of
the world. A session held in the Middle East about six weeks ago
gathered activists from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon who returned
to their countries with the aim of training their colleagues there."
Posner would add, "They went back and there's a ripple effect."

The Egyptian military would then strike at seditious Western-funded NGOs, seeking to undermine the
source of destabilization, the conduit through which US money and
support was being funneled through to "activists," and expose the true
foreign-funded nature of the political division that has gripped the
nation for now over a year.

A February 2012 AP article reported
that Egypt's generals declared, "we face conspiracies hatched
against the homeland, whose goal is to undermine the institutions of
the Egyptian state and whose aim is to topple the state itself so that
chaos reigns and destruction spreads." Clearly, this was an accurate
observation, not a political ploy to undermine "opposition" activists, with similar US-hatched conspiracies
documented and exposed from Tunisia all the way to Thailand.

With the more "blunt" instrument of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood taking the reins in the wake of ElBaradei's fall, the West will inevitably face a reckoning in the distant future after the Muslim Brotherhood has served its purpose. Until then, it seems to be doing a masterful job disassembling the institutions, checks, and balances of Egypt's secular government. Egypt's "revolution" has gone from a quasi-pliable proxy dictatorship, to one both more hardline and brutal domestically, and more pliable and willing in terms of serving Western interests abroad.

A Dark Age Descends Upon Egypt

For the average Egyptian, a dark age has begun to descend - one where freedom of speech is still curbed, the press still muzzled, an autocratic despot still holding the reins of power, but also one where the largest military in the Arab World is commanded by hardline theocratic sectarian extremists with regional ambitions and affiliations along with a proven track record of shedding blood within and beyond its own borders.

McCain
(left) and Kerry (right) gesticulate as they explain Wall Street and London's
agenda within the confines of an Egyptian Coca-Cola factory. This was
part of a trip surveying the effects of their US-funded opposition overthrowing Hosni Mubarak's government. While war and destruction seem approaching over the immediate horizon, the final goal is global corporate-financier hegemony being extended over Egypt and its neighbors. Morsi will inevitably, but quietly prepare the grounds for the machinations described by McCain and Kerry in 2011.

There is no revolution. Instead, a violent, extremist multinational front has been assembled, as it was planned since 2007, to array sectarian extremists against the collective influence and interests of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the government of Syria, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. By consequence, this brazen geopolitical conspiracy targets both Russia and China as well, setting the stage for even greater global conflict. It is a conspiracy that will be paid for with secular, moderate Muslim, and non-Muslim blood across the region, the destruction of ancient culture and traditions, and the regression of all social and economic progress made since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.